Through our newsfeeds and social media, we are constantly confronted with articles and headlines (like the headline of this piece) that have been deliberately designed to provoke outrage and attract clicks. We often naively think that by sharing our outrage on Facebook or Twitter, we are performing a small but good deed. However the collective effect of these small deeds often ends up exactly the opposite of what was intended....

Recent findings from a massive collaborative project (OSF, 2015), attempting to replicate many of the findings published in top psychology journals, have suggested that roughly half of these fail to ...

I am a researcher in cognitive science at the Institut Jean Nicod/Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France. I study "core knowledge," i.e. forms of knowledge that are cross-culturally universal and often appear very early in infancy. In particular I look at how core knowledge of physical objects and the social world continues to influence our lives as adults through shaping linguistic and perceptual systems, often unconsciously. I also have research interests in the psychology of expertise and the sociology of science, trying to understand why experts are so often wrong. It's this latter topic that I will be blogging about most often through the Cognition and Culture website.